Shlomo Giora Shoham

Society and the Absurd

A Sociology of Conflictual Encounters

Buch

There is an unbridgeable controversy between the functionalist sociologist who anchors his theories on society and the group, and the existentialist who bathes his thoughts on the individual. Durkheim and Parsons, as well as many contemporary American sociologists, are adjustment based in the sense that all those individuals who rock the boat even if they are creative innovators would be labelled deviant or mad. The existentialists, from Kierkegaard to Buber, regard the individual as the focus of life; they see philosophy and society as at best a curbing control-structure and at worst coercing, stigmatizing and ostracizing. The present volume… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84519-067-5
EAN: 9781845190675
Produktnummer: 4013677
Verlag: Sussex Academic Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D0.9 cm 374 g
Auflage: 2 Revised edition
Gewicht: 374
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Shlomo G. Shoham is a world renowned criminologist, recipient of the Selinglueck Award from the American Society of Criminology in 1977 and the Israel Prize Laureate for 2003. He has published some 90 books in 20 languages and 2000 articles in 30 languages in the areas of criminology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, theology and art. He has developed an interdisciplinary personality theory which is most suitable for the explanation of deviance and alienation.